Boston Fire Department

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International/Navistar has been a big name in trucks for generations, and have always been popular.  These Maxxforce engines seem to be a rare mis-step on their part.  Have they corrected the problem or replaced this engine line with a new one, or are customers who want an International forced to accept this engine?  Obviously the apparatus manufacturers can offer an engine from another company.

 

They have discontinued offering EGR completely. They were the only company to offer it, everyone else used SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) to meet the EPA emissions standards. Navistar now uses it as well. The lawsuits allege that not only were the engines with EGR defective, but that the company both knew about it & actively worked to conceal that fact. I don't know for certain about our particular case, but I believe we were told that we had to use this engine in our KME apparatus, which is why we're both party to the suits and trying to rid the fleet of those pieces. Not all of our KME's have the Navistar with EGR engines. For example, Ladders 17, 18 & 29 do but 10 & 16 do not; which is why, as far as I know, we plan on keeping the latter 2 & jettisoning the former 3.